LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to give a complete picture of origins, structure and evolution of medieval romance languages, to increase the knowledge of the medieval romance literatures by reading vernacular texts, to provide the students with competences about the comparative study of medieval works and about textual criticism.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to give to the students these competences:

1 – the ability to read literary medieval texts in their original language,

2 – the ability to contextualize medieval works in the socioeconomical landscape in which they are written.

PREREQUISITES

To have passed the exam of Filologia Romanza I

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal classes with multimedia support

Seminar with dott. Martina di Febo.

Lessons’ attendance is highly recommended. If the lessons’ attendance is impossible, Students have to conctat professor to agree an additional textbook.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The subject of the course is 

«Witch in medieval literatur»

During the lessons will be analyzed medieval texts that describe witches. Particularly, will be read and commented «Senher que prodom mi semblas», an XIII century provençal text  in in relation to the manuscript in which it is contained (Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Ashburnam 105). 

The seminar held by dott. Martina di Febo about «Witch, fairy, Sibyls» is an integral part of the course. 

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

S. M. Barillari, Protostoria della strega. Le fonti medievali latine e romanze, Aicurzio (MB), Virtuosa-Mente, 2014.

La strega e il confessore. Senher que prodom mi semblas. Testo provenzale del XIII secolo, a c. di S. M. Barillari, Aicurzio (MB), Virtuosa-Mente, 2017.